Sneaking Up On Life From Oblique Angles

So it’s Friday and I’m in love. I’m also coming to the end of a full week brain-racking, trying to think of a good way to celebrate the third anniversary of this blog.

Without much of anything you’d call success.

After my first year on this site I presented a blog of the state address, complete with pictures, so that infants, lesser primates, and personal injury attorneys could join in the fun.

After my second year at the Comma, in a feat of overconfidence I continue to regret, I resurrected Doctor Harold Toboggans – psychiatrist, windbag, professional arroganaut.

This year I find more and more of my humor, not to mention my time, being siphoned off to fuel Dr. Toboggans’ increasingly numerous activities.  I don’t know how I ended up as his chaperon, but it doesn’t look like I’ll be making parole any time soon.

What I have been making, at least on this site, are more serious posts. Articles that put into print the ideas and conversations that I have been developing with several friends over the last few years about faith and action and changing the world one person at a time.

To that end I recently made a video about the word “christian” and what it might mean outside of the marketing channels it has grown to represent.

I didn’t think I was ready to share it, but my friend Debbie sent me a link to a parallel post by Brain Jones that reminded me that I wasn’t alone in this approach to faith.  Strange how quickly I seem to forget that. Anyway here it is.

What If?

This site has always featured idiocy in advertising rather prominently, but it’s not nearly as funny when it lands this close to home.

Hopefully this time someone is listening.

It’s time to stop the hype.

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